After Carrington fled her aristocratic family, her extraordinary exodus would take in lunch with Man Ray in Cornwall, drinks with Picasso in Paris, confinement in a Spanish asylum and a daring escape from Hitler, before she fled to a new life in Mexico. Ahead of a major Tate exhibition, the Surrealist’s cousin, Joanna Moorhead, recalls the sentimental five-year journey she spent taking in the painter’s footsteps

Movie stars and models, magicians and moneymen… they may be growing up in some of Rio's poorest districts, but nothing can dent these children's aspirations, as the photographer Iris Della Roca discovered

Leonora Carrington revolted against her bourgeois background in Thirties Lancashire, eloped to Paris with Max Ernst and became a record-breaking Surrealist artist. Ahead of a new show at Tate Liverpool, Boyd Tonkin tells the story of a remarkable woman

What has happened to Europe's border posts since the common-visa policy made these former guardians of nationhood obsolete? The photographer Ignacio Evangelista spent three years travelling the continent to find out...